Jim Beam & Mila Kunis

We Drank Bourbon With Mila Kunis. Be Jealous.

AM: It seems as if you've had the opportunity to play perhaps a broader range of characters than a lot of your peers. In other words, not just the romantic interest, but baddies, comedic characters and Meg from Family Guy for so long. Was that calculated? MK: Absolutely. After Forgetting Sarah Marshall, everyone wanted to put me in a box to do romantic comedy and I vigilantly fought against it. It took me five years before I went off and did another romantic comedy [Friends With Benefits]. I was so specific about wanting to prove that just because you do one thing well, it doesn't mean it's all you can do. So I went and tried to do everything but what people expected me to do. You always want to challenge yourself and work with people you respect. You can't always go by genres, but it's always fun to challenge yourself.

AM:You've become something of an online hero, what with Funny Or Die videos, your professed love of gaming, viral interview videos [like the one with British journalist Chris Stark], and joining YouTuber Sgt. Scott Moore at the Marine Corps Birthday Ball. Do you consider yourself part of a new generation of cross-platform entertainers?MK: I don't think you could have predicted any of the things you just said. It all happened and people have gravitated towards it. The kid from the BBC wasn't playin' — he and I were doing an interview. It's not that big of a deal. I still don't understand why people gravitated towards it so much. We were just bantering back and forth, no different than what you and I were doing [In addition to NYC-based cocktails, Mila and I also discussed Jim Beam ice cream and maple donuts, and the dessert carts being trundled past for another event]. The young man who asked me for a date, it just happened and I said "sure." It wasn't like I was the 10th person down the line to do it, I think it was one of the first times it happened. I was in the middle of doing a press junket [for Friends With Benefits] and the video was brought to my attention by someone at ET or something like that. It kind of all worked out. You can't predict these things, they're anomalies. They really are. I think it's important to just be a good, honest person and be true to who you are. Because once you start trying to make that happen… Lord knows, I don't even have Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Why would I ever want to be viral when I'm not even on the Internet?

I may have been the only one nursing a drink (Jacob's Ghost White Whiskey and soda), but that doesn't mean I wasn't drinking with her. As our time together ended, we shook hands and she called me "awesome." That's when I swaggered proudly downstairs to Bill's Food & Drink, only to have the bartender discreetly inform me my fly had been undone the whole time. Ashton Kutcher, you're safe for now, you lucky bastard.

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